Speed of light - a constant or not?

Scientists at the Gran Sasso laboratory, using neutrinos sent from CERN through the earth to Italy, have potentially discovered that the speed of light may, in fact, be broken.

See The Irish Times for more.

Congratulations to Prof. Toal

Congratulations to Professor Vincent Toal of the School of Physics and the Centre for Industrial and Engineering Optics. His book entitled "Introduction to Holography" has just been published through CRC Press.

See CRC Press for further details.

DIT RESC research is licensed to Irish start-up company

Hot on the heels of receiving Enterprise Ireland's 'One-To-Watch' award, Dr. Fiona Lyng of the DIT Centre for Radiation and Environmental Science has joined forces with Irish business to set up a spin-off company, Raman Diagnostics, to commercialise her research into the diagnosis of cervical cancer with Raman spectroscopy.

See Spectroscopy Europe.